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18 years ago

Terasic DE2-70 Board

Hi, I'm planning on ordering an altera DE2-70 board from terasic and i was wondering if anyone could tell me if their general impression of the board. My university uses the DE2 for all of its ...
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17 years ago

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Thanks for your review. It prompted me to get one as well.

My quick notes after a less than a week:

  • Shipping is fast: I ordered an a Sunday and got it Tuesday morning (Taiwan -> Ca)

  • Packaging and documentation is the best I seen so far from a FPGA dev kit (I have many)

  • An overall care for details (rubber feet, acrylic protection cover, test wires, etc.)

  • There are lots of small positive surprises. Example:

  • The FPGA is the fastest speed grade

  • The PS/2 supports Y-splitters so both a keyboard and mouse can be attached

  • It shipped with the most important datasheets

Minor issues:

  • The lab exercises haven't been updated for the EP2C70 edition and may confuse beginnings

  • The supplied pin assignment .csv didn't work for me, but cloning one of the demos worked fine

  • Only the 1-bit SDcard interface is supported.

A truly spectacular board.

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Hello all,

I got my DE2-70 board and all went good for control pannel but at the same time it is very bad board who want to start embeded processor from this point there are no simple project to use to make a new application from scratch.

If some one can provide me such a file it would be very helpful for me

Regards